12/01/2004 (Agence Europe) - In an interview on Irish Radio RTE, US Secretary of State Colin Powell said Euro-American relations were "quite good". He went on to add: "The President has close relations with all of his European colleagues. We've had some serious differences with our French and German colleagues as a result of the Iraq situation last year, but by and large I think we enjoy good relations with Europe". Above all, Mr Powell noted that 18 of the 26 current or future NATO members have troops in Iraq, which shows there is no "big fissure" between the United States and Europe but, "quite the contrary, it shows that many European nations are working with us". Mr Powell is mainly pleased that a NATO summit is to be held end June (in Istanbul) as well as a transatlantic summit chaired by Ireland in Dublin (Ed.: probably in June, according to Bertie Ahern).